It turns out that the coach of Zersenay Tadesse is from...
..........
..............
...Spain...
Go Coach Geronimo Bravo!!!!!!!!
His first foray into the international athletics circuit came in 2002, when he attended the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Dublin. Although he was wearing ill-fitting shoes and was somewhat puzzled at hearing a starting gun for the first time,[4][7] he managed to finish in 30th place with a time of 36 minutes and 37 seconds. However, he remained some distance off the winner Kenenisa Bekele.[8] He competed at his first IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in May of that year, finishing just outside the top twenty runners with a time of 1:03:05.[9] He competed on the track at the African Athletics Championships, taking sixth place in the 10,000 metres race in Radès, Tunisia, rounding off a modest debut year.[1]
The 2003 season saw Zersenay establish himself as an emerging force in cross country: he broke into the top ten at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships,[10] and finished in the top three in all of his six races in Europe that winter.[1] A 5000 metres win at the KBC Night of Athletics brought Zersenay an Eritrean record of 13:11.07, and a place at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics.[11] At the 2003 World Championships, he improved his record further to 13:05.57 and finished in eighth place in the 5000 metres final.[12] More improvements came at the World Half Marathon Championships in Vilamoura, Portugal, where he recorded a personal best of 1:01:26 to finish in seventh position.[13][14]
Olympic medallist[edit]
The 2004 season represented a breakthrough for Zersenay and he established himself as a serious contender in distance running.
He signed a contract with Adidas SPAIN and brought the team victory at the European Clubs' Cross Country Cup in February.
[15][16] The following month he bettered his previous showings at the World Cross Country Championships with a sixth-place finish.[17] With the help of team mates Yonas Kifle and Tesfayohannes Mesfen, among others, he took Eritrea to third position in the team competition – the first time the country had reached the podium at a world cross country event.[18][19] Two months later he finished second in the 10 km Great Manchester Run; his time of 27:59 was five seconds behind winner Craig Mottram.[20] He took to the track in June at a meeting in Gavà, Spain, and recorded another national record, this time in the 10,000 m with a time of 27:32.61.[21]
The peak of his season came at the 2004 Athens Olympics, where he became the first person in Eritrean sporting history to win an Olympic medal.[4] Zersenay took the bronze in the 10,000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece behind Kenenisa Bekele, and Sileshi Sihine.[22] His performance of 27:22.57 represented a dramatic improvement as he had beaten his previous best by ten seconds, despite unfavourably hot conditions.[1]
Zersenay's first road race of 2010 was the LISBON Half Marathon.
The organisers had modified the course and assembled a field of fast runners in order to facilitate a quick race.[60]
Despite the top five athletes all running personal best times, Zersenay was alone at the very front from 10 km onwards. He fell four seconds short of the 15 km world record, but significantly revised Haile Gebrselassie's four-year-old 20 km world mark to 55:21, beating it by almost half a minute.
Samuel Wanjiru's (managed by Federico Rosa, history of MALARIA) half marathon world record was next to fall as Zersenay crossed the line at 58:23 minutes, a clear ten seconds ahead of the previous mark.[61]
He was also at full strength at the 2011 LISBON Half Marathon: he missed his world record mark but ran the second fastest of all-time (58:30 minutes).[66]
He won the LISBON Half Marathon for the THIRD straight year, but was slower than previous times (59:34) due to warm conditions and having the flu.[71]
Zersenay Tadese is based for most of the year in MADRID, where he is guided by the SPANISH COACH... Jeronimo Bravo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersenay_Tadese
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/eritrea/zersenay-tadese-189002
It's just a coincidence.
Go Coach Jeronimo Bravo!!!